Craft Brewers Collaborate on New Beers; U.S. Now Largest Wine-Consuming Nation
All 400 cases of Australia's most expensive wine, a recently released Shiraz called Laird priced at $700 to $800 a bottle, have been sold.
[Wall Street Journal]
A number of good cocktailing options have cropped up around Times Square, including the newly revamped Rum House.
[NY Times]
The upgrade of bars around Times Square continues with plans for a new 25-seat cocktail bar in the Iroquois New York hotel, headed up by Meaghan Dorman of Raines Law Room.
[Diner's Journal]
The latest trend among craft brewers is collaboration, such as Sierra Nevada's joint effort with monks from the Trappist-Cistercian Abbey of New Clairvaux, California.
[Wall Street Journal]
German-born molecular mixologist Alex Ott wants to create cocktails for NASA that can be consumed in space.
[Diner's Journal]
With more wine shipped here than to any other country, the U.S. surpassed France as the world's largest wine-consuming nation in 2010.
[PR Newswire]
Snoop Dogg will help launch a new line of Colt 45 malt liquor beverages called Blast by Colt 45 that come in fruit flavors and contain 12 percent alcohol by volume.
[Wall Street Journal]
Skinnygirl, a low-calorie cocktail brand created by reality star Bethenny Frankel, has been acquired by Beam Global Spirits.
[BusinessWeek]
Due, in part, to the success of his show Brew Masters, Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione has decided to respond to increased demand by scaling back distribution of his beer.
[Delmarvanow]
A new study suggests heavy alcohol consumption, i.e., three or more glasses of liquor a day, is associated with an increased risk of death from pancreatic cancer.
[Times of India]
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